40 Beautiful Responsive WordPress Themes for 2017

There are hundreds of thousands of WordPress themes available, but finding one that’s perfect fit your blog is not an easy job. One of the first things that I look when choosing a theme is that if it has a responsive design or not. Here‘s a great pot for those who don’t know what a responsive theme or design is.

Having a responsive design allows your website content to be displayed correctly to all users by using fluid grids, images, and queries to adjust the theme to accommodate screen of different sizes.

With the rapid growth of mobile devices, it’s important to make sure your website is ready for mobile devices. And responsive layout just takes away all the pain of creating a mobile version for your website.

Best Responsive WordPress Themes

WordPress Developers are working on making their themes responsive and for last few months, I’m seeing a lot of theme shops are coming out with clean, minimalistic, and responsive designs. In this post I have collected 40 Beautiful Premium WP themes from different authors that are designed to work on smartphones and tablets.

1. The Essence ($54)

The Essence is a stunning feminine WordPress theme meant to be seen by all readers, regardless of device or screen size. This responsive theme comes packed with useful features such as header social media icons, limitless color options, and a featured posts area.

Plus, choose from 17 blog layout options – classic, grid, and single post to name a few – and decide whether to have a sidebar or not. Change typography, background, spacings, and more using the exclusive MeridianStyler. And, with distinctive social media elements such as the blogroll post meta, mobile sharing bar, and end post reminder, you always encourage readers to share their favorite content with all of their friends and family.

This theme also includes features such as a featured header and footer slider, custom widgets for an About Me section and Social section for reminding readers to follow you across multiple platforms, and even support for Contact Form 7.

In addition, The Essence is fully translatable for reaching your global audience, works across most popular internet browsers, and did I mention it is responsive and 100% mobile friendly? In the end, The Essence is a great option for those looking to start a blogging website full of functionality and topped off with a bit of girlish style.

2. Solopreneur ($59)

Thinking about starting a blog? Solopreneur can help you get one ready to add content to in minutes. With a clean code making for better ranking and responsive design making it available for viewing on potentially any device, it is a great theme to go with if blogging is what you have in mind. While it can be used for making different kinds of sites the main focus of Solopreneur is blogging, being built with the intention this purpose, and it carries out the task pretty well.

The theme has an elegant design and presents your content in a manner that is, tried and tested, optimal for a viewing experience. A good blog theme should take into account the readability factor for presenting the content and Solopreneur shines in this aspect. Delivering satisfaction and captivating audiences,it comes with more bonuses such as two landing pages and social icons, and is compatible with Optin Forms, essentially providing for every blogger’s basic requirements.

Offering great value money and premium support to take care of your queries, this theme presents a strong case for itself and backs it up with solid and consistent performance both in terms of loading times and overall performance.

3. Divi Theme ($69)

Divi is the smartest, most flexible, and powerful WordPress theme designed by ElegantThemes. The main feature in Divi is the page builder that allows you to design all of your pages in the backend of your site without touching a single line of code. If you own a dozen of blogs or run a web design company, you can use this theme without having to purchase another theme every time you need a new design.

It comes with 18 pre-made layouts that allow you to quickly jumpstart your development. The theme comes with a dozen of modules that can be used to extend the functionality of the theme. For example, if you want to create an eCommerce website, you can use the shop module. You can use the modules to add features like add contact form, blog page, portfolio, pricing table, testimonials section, toggle effect, and more.

4. MyBlog ($38)

MyBlog is a powerful theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. The theme is very flexible, easy to customize, and well documented. Features include – Retina ready, post format support, multiple slideshows, unlimited color options, detailed documentation, and premium support.

The theme is designed with keeping latest standards in mind and has a solid responsive layout that scales to full screen width.

Full Disclosure: MyBlog theme is developed by WPKube team and is available for purchase on ThemeForest marketplace for $38.

5. Simple ($49)

Simple is a fully responsive, mobile-friendly, and versatile WordPress theme aimed at making website creation easy to do and fully customizable. It comes as a one page theme with cool parallax effects, smooth scrolling navigation, and built-in social sharing ability to boost user engagement and get your brand exposed to a wider audience. In addition, you can showcase your best content using the full-width banner or stunning slideshow and garner interest in site content instantly.

Build a beautiful and successful eCommerce shop using the popular WooCommerce platform, and even add some of Simple’s custom widgets for added site functionality. More so, translate all of your site’s content to globalize your brand, create site recognition by customizing your site’s entire color scheme, and choose from hundreds of hand-selected Google fonts.

Built with solid, clean code, and with top notch security measures in mind, Simple offers website owners a secure way to build an entire website from scratch without ever having to worry about losing all of their hard work to attacks and bloat. Lastly, this responsive theme comes with built-in shortcodes, photo-friendly layout options, and SEO optimization so your website is always indexed properly and found in popular search engine results.

6. Meridian Recipes ($59)

Meridian is a beautiful, and of course responsive, WordPress theme perfect for showcasing your recipes and articles. With unlimited color options and 19 different modules to choose from, this theme makes branding your website to match both your personality and business easy. Boasting unique features such as custom social media integration, a 5-star rating system, and distraction free cook-mode, Meridian stands above many of the existing recipe and magazine themes on the market today.

This theme allows you to create recipes without having to deal with shortcodes and lets you display them separately from your articles, or mixed up in them. In addition, Meridian offers your readers the option to print any recipe you post. After all, not everyone has constant internet access. Better yet, your readers can easy mark their favorite recipes using the exceptional bookmarking system included with this theme.

Users can create their own profile page where they can access recipes they have rated, bookmarked, and even recently viewed. More so, you can design a popup newsletter subscribe box using the exclusive Meridian Popups feature. This helps you build your email list and keep your readers informed. Lastly, take advantage of the MeridianStyler to change every element on your website without writing any code, create a custom About Me section, and don’t forget to give your readers a way to connect with you directly by adding the compatible Contact Form 7 plugin.

7. Shasta ($49)

Shasta is a responsive blogging theme specifically created for lifestyle bloggers. It comes as a modern, flexible, and cool theme, boasting 4 frontpage layouts, 9 custom post styles including video and audio, and even a full-width post banner for grabbing attention and leaving a lasting impression. Choose from a traditional blog layout or cascading grid design, and even customize whether to include a sidebar or not.

Use the WordPress Customizer to make any real-time changes you want, including colors, fonts, layouts, and more. More so, build an Ecommerce shop using WooCommerce, translate your site’s content to reach an international audience, and even integrate and Instagram feed in the footer of your website.

This feature-packed WordPress theme is all you need to get your website up and running. With built-in SEO optimization, social sharing options, and hundreds of Google fonts to choose from, the functionality and design of your website will be one worth remembering.

8. Avada ($58)

The number #1 selling theme of all time on ThemeForest. It has crossed 80,000 downloads mark in a very short time, and comes with all the features that you will expect in a multi-purposes theme. It also has a stunning rating of 4.71 from 6800 customers, which is a great thing considering most themes only have a handful of reviews. It come with an advanced admin panel allowing users to quikly and easily customize the theme.

9. Krypton ($58)

Krpton is a fully responsive multipurpose WordPress theme suitable for any kind of creative or business website. The theme is built on Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 Framework. It has a minimal yet modern look and a clean approach to the design. Allows you to create complex layouts of your pages and posts with simple drag and drop interface without touching a single line of code.

The theme has a powerful options panel, which allows you to customize the theme to match your needs. Options include – custom backgrouns, colors, progress bar & charts, touchable carousel, free icons via fontella, and google webfonts. It also includes comes with a premium plugins – Layer Slider.

10. Kalium ($58)

Kalium is a very versatile theme for creating virtually any type of the site. The theme comes with 30+ demo variations to show just how many directions you can take with this theme. Fully responsive and optimized for Search Engines, and priced at $48. It is also one of the fastest selling themes on ThemeForest.

11. Invictus ($58)

Invictus is a super versatile WordPress theme designed for Photographers, but can be used for other purposes as well. With out 7000 downloads, it is one of the most popular WordPress theme for photographers.

12. The7 ($58)

The7 is a clean responsive and retina ready theme with multiple designs, layouts, and colour options. It comes with a ton of useful features and detailed documentation. There are around 7 responsive layouts that will gives you an idea of what you can achieve with this theme. Features include custom design layouts, translation ready, portfolio layouts, support for post formats, shortcodes, and premium-class support.

The7 also comes with a number of premium plugins including Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, Layer Slider, and Pricing table.

13. Enfold ($58)

Enfold is a flexible multipurpose WordPress them built on Avia framework. It includes all the useful features you will find in any other responsive theme and since it is multipurpose theme, it integrates smoothly with WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, BuddyPress, BBPress, and other popular plugins out there.

The theme also includes a coming soon page, which can be useful for collecting emails before actually launching the site. Other demos include wedding theme, business theme, corporate site, restaurant, and church. Basically you can build any type of website using Enfold, as long as it doesn’t require advanced functionality. The interesting thing about this theme is that it has been sold 75000 times (at the time of writing this post) in less than 2 years.

Enfold is not only perfect for bloggers, creatives, and artists, but also for designers, developers, and agencies. Features include responsive layout, drag and drop editor, well documented, advanced typography options, and child theme support.

14. ShopKeeper ($58)

“Everything you need to build your site and sell online” this pretty much says it all, Shopkeeper theme comes with an amazing set of features such as fully responsive design, fully customizable, lots of Pre-Built page layouts, unlimited header styles, translation ready, and amazing slides (via Slider Revolution plugin), and much more. And you’d be happy to hear that you will get all this for just $58. Amazing features, fantastic support, and online documentation.

15. Worldview ($75)

Worldview is created by UpThemes, one of the most popular theme shops on the web. The theme comes with bold typography, beautiful cover photos, and captivating animations that works beautifully with Aesop Story Engine.

Features include responsive design, customizable color schemes, styles powered by Sass & compass, right to left language support, 2 or 3 column layout, and more.

16. Magazine ($99.99)

When it comes theme frameworks, there is no better solution then Genesis. Genesis theme created by StudioPress, provides awesome framework for creating awesome looking designs. Here is the demonstration of one such design through Magazine theme. The theme comes with all the fancy features and detailed documentation.

17. BeTheme ($58)

BeTheme is another multipurpose that comes with a responsive layout and WooCommerce integration. There are currently 34 custom skins available that can be used to beauty, real estate, business, corporate, portfolio, travel resume, church, lawyer, medical, and wedding site. This theme is perfect for someone who launches dozen of new websites every week. It comes with 200+ shortcode elements to create infographics, boxes, content blocks, testimonials, price boxes, and much more.

19. Uberto ($39)

Uberto is a clean blogging theme based on Bootstrap, and specially crafted for an amazing experience in mobile devices. This is a great theme for a personal or business blog. It supports video and audio along with your standard posts, custom widgets for author box.

It is also compatible with JetPack, a popular WP plugin which helps you supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users.

20. Centum ($43)

Centum is a premium minimalistic theme with dark and light color schemes, created for corporate and portfolio websites. This one’s great for showcasing your work. It includes a clients pages, about us page, shortcodes, flex, slider, and Slider Revolution plugin.

It is also compatible with WordPress Theme customizer that allows you to real time preview of your customizations.

This theme is an all-in-one solution for creating a membership site that can attract hundreds of thousands of new customers. It also comes with a dozen of list building tools that you use to double your email list. One such feature is popup box, normally you will have to pay somewhere from $22 to $200 to add that functionality on your site.

22. Rebound ($58)

Rebound is an ultra-responsive WordPress theme with parallax containers, Opengraph support, LayerSlider, customizable element animations, and detailed documentation. Also includes PSD files, in case you want to customize the design.

23. Function ($39)

Created by AuthenticThemes.com, this theme combines a clean, elegant, and responsive design ideal for a wide range of purposes including business, corporate, portfolio, blog, commerce, and magazine. It provides a powerful core functionality with a fully flexible, lightweight framework ensuring your content is delivered at the fastest speed theme wise.

24. Slowave ($48)

Slowave is a flat and responsive WordPress Theme with a clean and professional design which will be a great solution for your business, portfolio, blog, or any other purpose website. Built with awesome Twitter Bootstrap v3 and it features a beautiful front-end page builder, unlimited colour combinations, full Google fonts integration, and font controls.

25. Triplo ($49)

Triplo has a clean design that provides site owner to present and manage your work in a unique, simple, and stylish way. The theme has full width homepage layout, built-in contact form, widgetized footer, portfolio management, and many other great options.

26. NewsSetter ($55)

NewsSetter is a gorgeous magazine WP theme designed to promote your content. The premium theme from ThemeFuse has a clean design and layout options that can be used for a small business website, portfolio, online magazine site, personal blog, and business site.

The theme is very customizable and easy to use, you can change colors, backgrounds, fonts, and many more directly from the WordPress dashboard. It comes with one slider and HTML5 animations. Other features include – page layouts, custom post types, advertising ready, optimized for search engines, and shortcodes.

27. SmartMag ($58)

SmartMag is a modern, clean, responsive, and retina ready theme ideal for magazines, newspapers, review sites, or blogs. Easy to use and very customizable via its drag & drop page builder, which also allows you to create a unique homepage layout. SmartMag also comes with WooCommerce integration, what it means for you is that you can sell goods / products via your own website. The theme also comes with bbPress integration.

28. Classique ($49)

Classique is a clean and professional agency theme which makes use of whitespace and typographical elements highlights your business services and showing off your products. The premium theme from ThemeFurance has a elegant and modern design making it suitable for any type of business or agency website.

Classique has a responsive design, meaning it adjusts to display perfectly on any screen or device. Some of the key features include theme customizer, Google fonts to choose from, extensive documentation, widgetized areas, WPML ready, and custom support.

29. Santiago ($48)

Santiago is a clean WP theme built for magazines and business blogs. Though, you can use it for any type of business website. It features very clean and responsive design, which looks very good on any device. The theme is packed with easy to configure options to make your site unique.

The theme utilizes the widgets to makeup the homepage layout, which means you can drag & drop the elements on the homepage in any order you wish. You can use as many featured sections you want.

30. WP-Prosperity ($69)

WP-Prosperity theme is designed by Michael Pollock, the former owner of SoloStream. The theme includes several different home page and blog layouts that you can easily select via theme settings or a custom page template.

31. Seashell ($38)

Seashell is a professional theme ideal for personal blog, niche blog, corporate site, business blog, or any type of content site. It has parallax effects, and a one page scrolling homepage. It has responsive layout, unlimited colors, post formats, post social sharing integrated, translation ready, child theme support, and dedicated support.

The theme is very highly customizable (via web interface) so it can match your personal taste.

32. Purpose ($69)

Purpose is a versatile theme that can be used for any type of website. It is a modern business theme created by OrganicThemes. The theme is easy to setup and customizable using the WordPress customizer. Features include – WooCommerce compatible, portfolio template, multilingual compatible, responsive design, social media buttons, post formats, featured videos, and more.

33. Mr. Retailer ($58)

The Retailer is a top selling multi-purpose WP theme on ThemeForest marketplace. The theme is ideal for responsive online store, portfolio, personal/corporate site or a blog. It comes with two premium plugins already included – Visual Composer and Slider Revolution.

35. Feather ($38)

Feather is a simple blogging WordPress theme which brings simple and clean design. It comes with seven different post formats a lot of styling options. The back-end of Feather is powered by Redux Framework.

Some of the key features include – responsive layout, shortcodes, support for contact form 7, social share buttons, advanced theme style settings, and premium support.

36. Exodus ($79)

Exodus WP theme is specifically designed for church websites, although the template could be used for any type of website that needs a well designed layout. It includes all the features that you will need including mobile frienldy design, sermon archive, photo & video gallery, event pages, staff profiles, and news section.

37. LuxMag ($43)

LuxMag is one of the best magazine themes available on ThemeForest and is created by AJ. The theme provides a luxury feel to the readers, ideal for bloggers, photographers, and magazines. It comes with a theme customizer (no third party options panel), where you customize the feel and look of the site – you can change the colors, fonts, layouts, breadcrumbs, widgets, header styles, featured images, author box, and more.

It also includes a homepage slider to display your most recent posts, but you can always customize the slider to match your needs. For example you can show the recent posts from categories and set the number of articles you would like to display.

38. Cassia ($48)

Cassia is a clean, rock solid, and straight forward WP Theme designed to showcase your articles, photos, videos, and any other type of content. The theme comes with three different blog layouts and five custom widgets.

39. ExtraNews ($58)

ExtraNews is a unique magazine theme designed with keeping all sorts of publishers in mind. It comes with a stylish news and blog layout, with integrated reviews, videos, slideshows, and galleries in each post. It is fully integrated with rich snippets that lets you get more recognized on search engine by showing the review right in the results.

40. Sportsline ($43)

Sportsline theme is design for sports fan. This feature rich theme comes with an amazing layout which can be used for any type of website. The theme is well documented which is fully configurable and easy to use, and comes with a lot of great features.

Built on Bootstrap 3 and has powerful custom post type. This theme has been designed with care in order to provide a 100% functional sports site focusing on user experience.

41. Grille ($48)

Grille is a clean, minimalistic, and responsive theme ideal for bloggers, creatives of all sorts, photographers, and other enthusiasts. It provides a dozen of great features including portfolio functionality, post formats, coming soon template, 404 page, documentation, shortcodes, social sharing, and more.

With Grille, you can also sell digital or physical goods, as it is fully compatible with Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) plugin.

43. Expedition ($75)

Expedition is a clean directory theme from WPZoom, ideal for travel agencies, travel and city guides, and review websites. The theme is powered by WPZoom framework, meaning you will be easily able to make modifications in your theme to best suit your needs.

44. Throne ($43)

Throne is a professional WordPress theme designed for niche blog, corporate blog, marketing blog, authority site, or any type of creative blog or magazine. It is highly customizable so it can match your personal taste and be quickly converted into a multi-purpose theme as well.

With Inspiration it’s easy to handle all aspects of the website’s setup. And if you need any assistance in editing the theme you can always contact the Dessign.net team for free support.

The Inspiration theme makes it really easy to create a great website or an online portfolio where you will showcase your latest and greatest works. Check out the live demo and see how good this WordPress theme is.

I really need to invest some time thinking about the concept of using a responsive theme on my blog. I’m not sure how many of my readers are using mobile phones but it is time for me to start taking notice. Thanks for sharing some great examples.

Just wanted to let you know that, I recently made the WPKube responsive and am getting good response, so far. I used the Thesis Starter kit to make the WPKube responsive, you can read more about it here.

Thank you for a great list. I wish there was a pros and cons for each theme. As a WP newbie I see all of these great options but I’m not sure which one to use. Any suggestions for a beauty and cosmetic products company?

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